Cantaloupes have unique greenish netting on the skin and stunning, sunny, salmon-colored flesh. Cantaloupes are at their best during the warmer seasons. With a candy-like taste in every bite, the cantaloupe makes the perfect sweet summer snack.

The Honeydew melon is a variety of muskmelon and is considered the sweetest of all melons. The skin of a good quality Honeydew melon will have a slightly waxy feel. The flesh will have a creamy yellow color that is rich with a sugary sweet flavor.

This melon is a hybrid cross between a Cantaloupe and Honeydew. It has thin, smooth, yellow skin and irresistible, creamy, orange meat. The Orange Flesh is extremely juicy and sweet, making them the perfect refreshing summer fruit.

Canary melons vary in shape, similar to a Honeydew melon. The skin is a bright canary yellow with a smooth texture. This melon has a unique Cantaloupe-like flavor that is sweet with a modest tang.

The Galia melon resembles a Cantaloupe on the outside and a Honeydew melon on the inside. It has creamy, light green flesh with a delightfully sweet flavor.

The Casaba melon was first cultivated in Persia thousands of years ago. It was not introduced to the United States until the late nineteenth century when it was imported from Kasaba, Turkey. The Casaba is a honey-gold color with green coloration on their wrinkled skin. Casabas are most often pumpkin-shaped with a slight point on the stem end. Casaba flesh is creamy and green with a delicately sweet, cucumber-like flavor.

The golden variety of Honeydew is rapidly gaining popularity throughout the United States. Golden Honeydews have a firm, gold shell and rich, dense flesh that is sweet and refreshing.

Crenshaw is a hybrid cross between the Casaba melon and the Persian melon. The Crenshaw has a butterscotch rind that is ridged and wrinkled. Its tender, salmon-colored flesh holds a sweet aroma and has an incredibly sweet accompanied with a slight kick.

Persian melons are quite large with a dark, earthy green coloring that turns lighter as the melon ripens. The netting of the melon is very fine and will turn a slight brown when the melon is ripe.

Also known as the “Christmas melon,” Santa Claus melons are large with a freckled yellow and green rind. When the melon is ripe the rind will have a slightly waxy feel to it.

Hami melons come from mainland China and have been popular amongst the Chinese for centuries. Hami melons have a distinct sweet and crispy flesh.

Watermelons are oblong in shape and can weight anywhere from 15-25 pounds on average. Small and large, black and brown seeds are speckled within the sweet scarlet flesh of the watermelon. A healthy watermelon will have a dull rind with a dull yellow patch where the melon touched the ground. With a consistency that is 92% water and 8% sugar, watermelons are an excellent source of water. The red flesh of the watermelon comes from its high lycopene content, which helps in the prevention of cancers.

Seedless watermelons are actually a hybrid form of watermelon called a triploid, in which the seeds to not fully develop. The seedless watermelon holds the same sweet scarlet flesh of a Watermelon, with only empty, white “pips,” where the seeds would normally be found.